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About Maida Withers Dance Construction Company

A not-for-profit, federally tax-exempt organization founded in 1974 and incorporated in 1976 in Washington, DC, the Maida Withers Dance Construction Company (MWDCCo) mixes dance and performance with technology and media to create thought-provoking works in a collaborative process with artists, scientists and others committed to a process of experimentation. Dances are created for stage, site, and film with emphasis on innovation and international exchange. The current focus of the Company is on technology and its interface with human emotional expression related to popular global culture. Interactive works driven by social and political consciousness have featured rotating loudspeakers, laser beams, wireless cameras, cyber worlds, video installations, video feedback, always with original music created and performed live. Maida Withers, Founder and Artistic Director, has created a significant body of work, over 100 dances of breadth and vision. The Company tours internationally once or twice each year with frequent sponsorship by U.S. Embassies and the U.S. Department of State. Tours and residencies in over 18 countries have occurred since 1962 and include Russia, Poland, France, Mexico, Guatemala, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Croatia, and others with performances at Lincoln Center GREAT DANCE in the Bandshell (NYC), Luna Theatre (Moscow), Teatro Cacilda Becker (Rio de Janeiro), Warner Theatre, Kennedy Center, Lisner Auditorium (Washington, DC). Site works have been created for Lenin Museum (Krasnoyarsk), Museum of Image and Sound (Sao Paulo), Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Holy Rood Cemetery, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Smithsonian?s Renwick Gallery (Washington, DC), among others. Dance films are created for exhibition in local, national, and international film and video festivals.

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